February 16, 2013

Philosophy in a Weekend

You can listen to over 200 interviews with philosophers on a very wide range of topics on the Philosophy Bites podcast also on iTunes and available as an iPhone app. This series includes the following episodes which are particularly relevant:

Philosophy: The Classics podcast available free on iTunes (and also in less wieldy form here) - also available as an iPhone app: this is based on 18 chapters from my book Philosophy: The Classics and provides short introductions to key books in the history of Philosophy, beginning with Plato's Republic.

Early Modern Texts - this is a series of paraphrases of 17th, 18th, and some 19th century philosophical works. This shouldn't really work, but it is in fact excellent, largely because run by the distinguished philosopher Jonathan Bennett who has spent many years teaching these texts to students and has a deep understanding of them. Also includes some links to reliable sources of original texts online.